Cooperative wireless sensor environments supporting body area networks

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 284-292

  Ivanov, Stepan ^a   Botvich, Dmitri ^a   Balasubramaniam, Sasitharan ^a  

^a South East Technological University   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Body Area Networks; Gradient Based Routing; Multi channel MAC Cooperation

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; DATA DELIVERY; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSOR; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; GRADIENT BASED; HEALTHCARE MONITORING; MAC LAYER; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL LAYER; MULTI-CHANNEL MAC; MULTIHOP TRANSMISSION; MULTIPLE CHANNELS; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; SINGLE CHANNELS; SINGLE TRANSCEIVER; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS SENSOR;

DEGRADATION; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); HEALTH CARE; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SENSOR NODES;

SENSORS;

EID: 84863760600     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2012.6227425     Document Type: Article

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